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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:16:24 +0100

> Can anyone see a better approach -- short of rewriting the whole ATM
> layer to make the locking saner?

There is no doubt in my mind that these VCC objects need to be
refcounted when used like this.

The only other alternative is to make use of something like RCU.